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Fundamentals of Transportation is aimed at undergraduate civil engineering students, though the material may provide a useful review for practitioners and graduate students in transportation. The book is divided into three main parts: planning, operations, and design. Find out how an idea becomes a road!

The Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter is a guidebook to the Harry Potter series. Critical commentary on each chapter, character, object, place, and event is provided in an effort to help the reader better understand detailed content and find connections to the greater storyline.

The Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter is a guidebook to the Harry Potter series. Critical commentary on each chapter, character, object, place, and event is provided in an effort to help the reader better understand detailed content and find connections to the greater storyline.

A concise approach to New Zealand History, this textbook covers the first inhabitants, the Maori, the discovery of New Zealand by the Europeans and some of the significant events that have led up to the way the country is in the present day.

Latin was the everyday language of the Romans and the basis of Romance languages. Studying Latin will make it easy to learn any such language. As you learn this classical language, you'll connect with Julius Caesar and many other famous Romans. Furthermore, the study of Latin will develop a firm linguistic foundation, bridging the gap between you and some of the greatest writers, scientists, and thinkers.

The Advanced Certificate and the Advanced Diploma in Applications of ICT in Libraries permit library staff to obtain accreditation for their skills in the use of ICT. Anyone can make use of the materials and assessment is available in variety of modes, including distance learning.

Cognitive Psychology is a psychological science which is interested in various mind and brain related subfields such as cognition, the mental processes that underlie behavior, reasoning and decision making.

Everyone has his or her own view of the nature of consciousness. The intention of Consciousness Studies is to expand this view by providing an insight into the various ideas and beliefs on the subject as well as a review of current work in neuroscience.

Elements of Political Communication is a style guide for beginners who want to produce political messages in various media formats. It is not a rule book; rather, it is a set of guidelines to facilitate effective political communication.

Introduction to Sociology: The first section of this book covers the foundations of sociology, including an introduction to the discipline, the methods of study, and some of the dominant theoretical perspectives. The remaining chapters focus on the different areas of study in sociology.

Groups are everywhere; whether in our social lives, our work, or even our families, individuals decide to work collectively to achieve particular goals. In Managing Groups and Teams we take a challenge-based approach, one that focuses on the "how" of managing a group or a team.

A concise approach to New Zealand History, this textbook covers the first inhabitants, the Maori, the discovery of New Zealand by the Europeans and some of the significant events that have led up to the way the country is in the present day.

Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education is essential reading for US teachers. It was created and edited as part of an education course, ECI 301, at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. The book's primary contributors have been undergraduate, preservice teachers.

UK Constitution and Government is the perfect introduction for high school lessons on UK government. It is also a quick guide for people of other nations to get some insight into the arcane governance of the UK with its powerless head of state and all powerful House of Commons.

Veterinary nurses need to have a firm grasp of the normal structure of an animal’s body and how it functions before they can understand the effect diseases and injuries have and the best ways to treat them. Anatomy and Physiology of Animals describes the structure of the animal body and the way in which it works

Nuclear Medicine is a fascinating application of nuclear physics. The first ten chapters of this wikibook are intended to support a basic introductory course in an early semester of an undergraduate program. Additional chapters cover more advanced topics in this field.

Control Systems is an inter-disciplinary engineering text that analyzes the effects and interactions of mathematical systems. This book is for third and fourth year undergraduates in an engineering program.

Formal Logic is a study of inference with purely formal content. The first rules of formal logic were written over 2300 years ago by Aristotle and are still vital to many modern disciplines like Linguistics and Computer Science.

Fundamentals of Transportation is aimed at undergraduate civil engineering students, though the material may provide a useful review for practitioners and graduate students in transportation. The book is divided into three main parts: planning, operations, and design. Find out how an idea becomes a road!

High School Mathematics Extensions is aimed at, but not limited to, 14 to 18 year olds who are interested in mathematics in general. Several interesting topics not covered in the standard high school curriculum are introduced in this text.

Human Physiology explains, system by system, the workings of your body. It is intended as an understandable undergraduate-level guide to how the body systems function at a cellular level and how they work together to maintain a favorable environment for your cells. You and your class are invited to use and improve this book!

Radiation Oncology is a concise review of the radiation oncology field including a review of pertinent literature. Designed as a primer for students of radiation oncology, but may also be useful for those in practice to review areas of interest.

Special Relativity is an introductory text for physics undergraduates and advanced high school students. It is also approachable by the educated layman. It is carefully designed to tackle the physics of simultaneity.

Ada Programming is a tutorial teaching the Ada programming language. Ada puts unique emphasis on, and provides strong support for, good software engineering practices that scale well to very large software systems (millions of lines of code, and very large development teams).

Blender 3D is a cross-platform, open source 3D modeling and animation package. It can be used to create photo-realistic images, animated films, CGI special effects and computer games.
This book provides an excellent collection of tutorials to help you learn to model, render, rig, animate, and create with Blender 3D. You will be turned from a newbie to a pro in minutes!

C Programming is a tutorial teaching the C programming language. C is the most commonly used programming language for writing operating systems. Not only is C a popular language for operating systems, it is the precursor and inspiration for almost all of the most popular high-level languages available today. In fact, Perl, PHP, Python and Java are all written in C. C++, a common object-oriented language, was originally implemented as a preprocessor to C. C is also used in microcontroller programming because of its easy access to the hardware through pointers. C is renowned for its efficiency and portability, while still allowing this low-level access.

Ever wonder what the relationship was between the C programming language, Assembly Language, and machine code on the x86 family of microprocessors? Learn the art of disassembly and reverse engineering on the x86 platform with the x86 Disassembly wikibook!

Python is a modern programming language, powerful yet easy to learn. This tutorial book targets at people who have never programmed before. It provides both an introduction to Python and to computer programming in general.

In this advanced Haskell tutorial we'll implement a significant subset of Scheme. We assume no prior Haskell knowledge, but progress quickly. If you're feeling ambitious, why not Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours?

XForms is the world-wide-web standard for building feature-rich web applications without requiring any knowledge of JavaScript. The XForms wikibook provides an in-depth tutorial and cookbook-style examples of over 90 working XForms applications.

eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a widely-used computer language for creating and designing pages on the web and for defining other languages with more specialized purposes. XML - Managing Data Exchange provides a detailed description of XML, its origins, its programming, and its uses on the Internet today.

Arimaa is a two-player 8*8 board game with simple rules, but a much larger selection of moves than chess. Except in endgame positions, Arimaa defies precise calculation, and its creator hoped it would prove easier for humans than computers. In 2015, however, a bot defeated three top human players, winning the Arimaa Challenge.

Chess is an ancient strategy game for two players. In this book, not only will you learn to play chess, but you will also master it. This book is great for beginners, but also for anyone else interested in chess - even a chess master.

Outer space is the final frontier for humans. Even though the rest of the solar system objects may seem like tiny dots from Earth, our celestial neighbors are still important to learn about, because they aren't really just dots. Solar System presents this material in a manner inviting to young astronomers everywhere.